By: Albert Bruce Pruitt, Pub. 2019, reprinted 2026, 226 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-726-7. Cabarrus County was created in 1792 from Mecklenburg County. Deeds are GREAT source for genealogical research due to the many and varied family members that are mentioned. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishment of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds. These 988 deed abstracts are from Books 15 and 17 which cover the years 1842-1851.